WMMA's Middleweight, Lightheavyweight, and Heavyweight divisions: Would you be interested?

[MMAart]

There is the saying that goes, "if you build it, they will come."

If the UFC build the bigger WMMA divisions (MW, LHW, Heaveyweight), make the pay enticing, real top Olympic level athletes will come (after they finish their Olympic careers). It'd be a great way for them to make money.

Would you be interested in watching world-class athletes fight in bigger WMMA divisions?​

Here are some of the top female Olympic putters and hammer throwers who definitely pack serious power in their hands, and they look like they can kick some serious asses:

Valerie Adams

Fanny Roos

Sophie Hitchon

Yanina Karolchyk

Astrid Kumbernuss

Michelle Carter

Gwen Berry

Amelia Strickler

Imagine having title fights with these ladies and someone like Gabi Garcia:

 

[acannxr]

 

[TR1]

 

[Oeshon]

The only time I'll be interested in a woman fighting is when a woman competes in the men's division. Until then they are utterly irrelevant

 

[WHITE ANDERSON]

maybe if they fought men

tbh i don't even care about men's MMA anymore

corona killed UFC

 

[Ares Black]

Nah. The talent pool at FW and LW is ludicrously shallow as it is.

 

[Ares Black]

The only time I'll be interested in a woman fighting is when a woman competes in the men's division. Until then they are utterly irrelevant

Fight of the Year is WMMA

 

[acannxr]

There is the saying that goes, "if you build it, they will come."

And just to argue your point: divisions like Women's Bantamweight actually have less fights now than they did back in 2013.

The only reason half the women's divisions even exist is because they're women; if a men's division had less than 5 fights per year like Women's Featherweight it would've never been created in the first place, and if it had been created it would've been scrapped after a year or less.

The last thing I'll leave you with is that as you go up in heavier divisions for women, the less of them there will be; the reason Lightweight and Welterweight are the most stacked men's divisions is because that's the size most men exist at. Women's Bantamweight had 12 fights, Women's Flyweight had 23 fights, and Women's Strawweight had 32 fights in 2018 (for reference Men's Flyweight, the weakest men's division, had 24 fights in 2018); you'll notice an increased correlation as you decrease in weight, while as you increase the weight the number of fights decreases, so logically it would be better to invest in creating lighter divisions and not heavier ones, because that's where more female fighters are likely to exist.

 

[Blanqa Blanqua]

The only time I'll be interested in a woman fighting is when a woman competes in the men's division. Until then they are utterly irrelevant

maybe if they fought men

tbh i don't even care about men's MMA anymore

corona killed UFC

thry could sure beat the shit out of you two weenies

 

[MMAart]

Mods: Could you please move this topic back on the UFC forum?

This is a serious discussion, not a joke or a fantasy match-up thread. Why was it moved here?

 

[Oeshon]

thry could sure beat the shit out of you two weenies

Speak for yourself, manlet

 

[TempleoftheDog]

Mods: Could you please move this topic back on the UFC forum?

This is a serious discussion, not a joke or a fantasy match-up thread. Why was it moved here?

Did you just pick a bunch of big track athletes here? Do these women actually train mma? If not it seems like a pretty big assumption, and a serious stretch to call this a serious discussion.

 

[Travis Alexander]

If we are putting women shotput in... at least we can assume Brocks daughter likely has a mean double leg!

 

[Repusman]

Mods: Could you please move this topic back on the UFC forum?

This is a serious discussion, not a joke or a fantasy match-up thread. Why was it moved here?

They moved it because it is fucking stupid.